Current student taking questions about BC. .

eagle2012
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:15:17 +0000

My experience with class sizes has been fine. Personally, I don’t mind large classes, but obviously everyone prefers to have some small classes. Also, I haven’t necessarily found the TAs/grad students I’ve had to be worse then professors, because TAs/grad students are usually livelier/more accessible/straightforward in teaching the material.

Freshmen year:
Took a small (20-30 person literary class) taught by a fantastic English professor (O’Har)
Philosophy of the person (core required class, had about 30 people). Good professor, and pretty easy (Estelrich)
Spanish (15 person class). With a TA that was an amazing teacher (I suck at Spanish, but she made it really fun).
History (large lecture hall 100-150 person class), taught by a professor who used powerpoint, but once a week discussion class taught by a TA in a 10 person class.
Freshmen Writing Seminar (15 person class), taught by a professor.

I’m not going to go through every class I’ve taken, but most classes have 25-30 people, with a few outliers on both the large and small size.



Ny0rker: I think you’ll find the drunk jock stereotype to be overhyped (although it is a substantial portion of the population). I find that we have a very open and accepting student body, and that the racial/economic/geographic diversity brings an exciting dimension to our campus.



Jenx: Re: Bargaining

Call your financial aid officer/advisor, and explain to them that you need a larger package to consider attending BC. Being persistent is definitely an advantage, but make sure not to be too burdensome.

Sorry for the brief replies, stuck in the midst of a busy week (extracurriculars have really picked up, and have a few papers to do)